Angelica Sprocket's Pockets

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The pictures are big and bright enough to capture her attention, while the rhyme is interesting and engaging, all without being over stimulating. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Quentin was the inaugural Children's Laureate (1999-2001), an experience he recorded in his book Laureate's Progress.Quentin Blake shows he is still a master of his craft in Angelica Sprocket's Pockets , which contains everything from kitchen sinks to alligators. Angelica’s small chums are enchanted by the contents which include mice, cheese, hankies, frying pans, umbrellas and much more. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Limited to a production of 90 and numbered in pencil but not signed, this print is supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity, and is presented in a double bevelled conservation mount. Packaging Details: We go to great lengths to ensure that your purchase arrives in perfect condition.

He has won many major prizes for illustration, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (1980) and the Red House Children's Book Award (1981) for Mister Magnolia. Angelica Sprocket's Pockets’ is one of nine Official 90th Birthday Collector’s Edition Prints, celebrating Quentin Blake’s 90th Birthday, Friday 16th December 2022, from his Official publishers, Aquarelle Publishing Ltd. During his time in the role, he celebrated children's books and children's book illustration with a range of projects and exhibitions, and conceived the idea for the House of Illustration, the world's first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms. I think she will continue to enjoy this book for a few years to come, eventually joining in with the story as we read. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The images have been taken from original watercolours from some of Quentin Blakes’s most loved picture books. He is also the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and in 1990 was voted 'The Illustrator's Illustrator' by Observer Magazine. The storyline is entertaining with good use of rhyming language and the drawings are just brilliant.